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Of the later generations of phoneticians I know little Ains ain I must disclaim all portraiture But if the play makes the public aware that there are such people as phoneticians, and that they are aland at present, it will serve its turn

I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is estee it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic It goes to proveelse

Finally, and for the encouragement of people troubled with accents that cut thee wrought by Professor Higgins in the flower girl is neither ihter who fulfils her a the Queen of Spain in Ruy Blas at the Theatre Francais is only one of hed off their native dialects and acquired a new tongue But the thing has to be done scientifically, or the last state of the aspirant may be worse than the first An honest and natural slum dialect is ht person to iolf club; and I am sorry to say that in spite of the efforts of our Acadelish on our stage, and too little of the noble English of Forbes Robertson